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Advance Notice: Partial Solar Eclipse Friday

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Tensions will build as we approach the upcoming (partial) Solar Eclipse  at 9 degrees Cancer... The eclipse will be setting off ...yes...here it is..again...the Cardinal Grand Cross.  Actually it is already happening...the Sun is now opposite Pluto and square both Saturn and Uranus. Friday's eclipse will then bring everything to a head and trigger a major shift in consciousness (for those willing or wanting to go deeper into it)  Read the last few posts for insight into this powerful aspect that is currently shaking up our worlds...(both internal and external..) There's also an excellent article at planet Waves about the Sun's current position  opposite retrograde Pluto in Capricorn,; how retrograde Pluto pulls us inward and brings deep issues up to the surface.   She says it so well.... I figure why not just send you there...go to Eric Francis (Planets Waves) on the sidebar or click here: http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/ More here in a few days...

Venus in Gemini Lots of love

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This blog is a labour of love...no money comes from it and I am not trying to compete with other Astrologers. As a matter of fact, I often reference other's work and am happy to direct you to some excellent Astrology sites (see sidebar). A student at heart, I see this blog as a reference and a resource and a teaching tool. Many people I know want to know a bit more about astrology so this is a place to start. I resist doing daily updates and instead try to focus on the big picture. I love getting comments, so if you have a response or like something... do let me hear it. Meanwhile, it is a very big picture right now with the ongoing T -Square between some heavy hitting planets turning into a Grand Cross while the Sun is  in early degrees Cancer. (read the last post for more on that). The coming eclipse on July 1st will bring even more intensity to an alreay pressured atmosphere...good time to keep your head down, you thoughts clear and your heart still. That is the challenge w

Summer Solstice Love and Transformation

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Today is the Sumer Solstice, the supposed longest day of the year…(the Sun actually 'stands still' for almost three days). According to Jonathan Cainer (sidebar) it does the same at the Winter Solstice, beginning Dec 21. It starts to move on by Dec 25th…when we celebrate Christmas. Today, as the Sun moves into the Astrological sign of Cancer, summer officially begins. In the Northern hemisphere, the crops that were planted in the spring begin to ripen in the increasing heat; schools take a break, people take vacations, families get together; it’s a time of general expansion. I like that there is this pause at the beginning of the two opposite seasons…pause for thought and reflection; time to gather ourselves and get our bearings. The celestial bearings have the Sun sitting at 1 degree Cancer on what’s called the Aries point…it marks the beginning of each season in the cardinal signs and which yet again sets off the Cardinal Grand Cross. Last year we had an eclipse in Jul

Eclipse No 2.

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Did you ever lie on your back on your lawn as a kid (or as an adult) just watching the stars? I used to love the feeling of endless dark glittering  space stretching out above me… feeling as if I might fall up into it. Even now … a shooting star zipping across the night sky evokes a gasp of wonder.  It can be hard to imagine that those stars and planets above and around us can have a personal impact on the rhythms of our lives. Not many actually believe that they do.  Yet we only have to see how the tides are influenced by the Moon’s pull to know that these are forces to be reckoned with. Right now we in the midst of an unusual series of three eclipses (they most often come in two’s). Ancient peoples used to be terrified of these events and attributed all sorts of superstitions and omens to explain them. Imagine their shock and surprise to see the Sun or Moon slowly disappearing, only to see them re-emerge and return to their normal appearance. What wonder, what fear shook them?

Moving right along Mercury in Gemini

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The length of this post (oops) is evidence that Mercury has just entered Gemini...which is where it is most itself. And Jupiter moves out of Aries into Taurus this weekemd. Whenever a planet crosses the cusp of one sign into another there is a kind of acceleration...as well as a shift of focus, as the new energy begins to be felt. Jupiter in Taurus brings us abundance and plenty, but slows the pace down a notch from fiery Aries. We also just had a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday at 11 degrees Gemini. I have been travelling and was unable to write on Sunday as planned, but I will give you a quick overview. Eclipses  keep reverberating for months afterward so these effects will  be pertinent for some time. There was a lot of tension building up to the eclipse. The Moon first hit Mars, Venus then Mercury in Taurus...(all personal planets) and also hit the Cardinal T-square between Pluto Saturn and Uranus which has been the topic for over a year (yikes)...so the energy was pretty